Emerge of libtool-1.5.10-r2 fails with the following error: >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-devel/libtool-1.5.10-r2 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) libtool-1.5.10.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking libtool-1.5.10.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/libtool-1.5.10-r2/work * Applying libtool-1.4-nonneg.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-multilib.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-demo.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.5-testfailure.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.3-lib64.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-archive-shared.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.5.6-ltmain-SED.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-expsym-linux.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.3-libtoolize--config-only.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.3-pass-thread-flags.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.4.2-portage.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.5.10-version-checking.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.5.2-ltmain_sh-max_cmd_len.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.5-filter-host-tags.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying libtool-1.5.10-locking.patch ... [ ok ] * Generating ltmain.sh ... [ ok ] * Running autotools in '.' ... /usr/portage/sys-devel/libtool/libtool-1.5.10-r2.ebuild: line 126: aclocal: command not found !!! ERROR: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.10-r2 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 126, Exitcode 127 !!! aclocal !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. libtool-1.5.10-r1 emerges just fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-rc3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-rc3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 9 2004, 20:56:54)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.8.5-r2, 1.9.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://gentoo.osuosl.org" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xprint xv zlib"
'emerge sync' fixed this for me. I don't know, but I think Bug #75277 [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75277] has to do with it.